ABSTRACT: In our culture, a doctor is often not considered as a gendered person, but that’s not always true for speech and language pathologists, since about 90% of Italian SLTs are female. So people might have a culturally defined standard regarding these workers. The aim of the study is to investigate, from an anthropological and non-judgmental point of view, how male speech therapists feel about their job, in particular whether and why they think to be discriminated in their profession by the majority of female practitioners or, on the contrary, if they somehow have a head start because of their gender. Yet, to investigate if and why the patients feel that gender is relevant in building trust towards their therapist, and how this can affect their motivation to make efforts in improving their condition. This study will improve our understanding of how male SLTs live their profession, how patients see them and can also contribute to improving the knowledge about these figures.